Astana-17

Anisa Hafizova, 85, pictured in her home in Astana. Anisa was sent to Tselinograd in 1957 with her husband from their home in Siberia as part of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s Virgin Lands campaign. During the campaign many young communists where sent to northern Kazakhstan to work the land and boost the Soviet Union’s agricultural production to relieve food shortages at home.